Sink or Swim

We are all born with an obstacle to overcome, a way to find, a path to carve.  A fortunate few carry an extra burden on their journey, a cross to bear, or a chip on the shoulder, a constant voice whispering, or a hole inside.  These extras make all the difference in drowning or rising above the tide.

If used for fuel they can propel someone to greater heights than ever conceived.  If dwelled on they can bring even the mightiest to their knees, taking them to depths never before seen. 

We are born with a choice, to use adversity as fuel, or succumb to it's toxic fumes.  This is a choice for our hearts to make, a purely calibrated quest of the heart and soul is undeniable.  A yearning heart and soul is vulnerable to stop and take council in itself, wallow in the sheer weight of the load it carries, bringing it down ever further as it goes, if it can still move at all.  Our heart and soul controls our eyes and mind, heart and soul controls our eyes and mind.  We can either see clearly, or be enslaved to being blind.

The brilliance in this whole paradigm is the choice we have in this moment.  Burn the fuel or surrender to the load.  One creates new vistas, one is stuck in the road.

Life's journey offers no guarantee.  Make the most of this breath, or stay idle, floundering. 

With your whole heart grasp all that is dear, if it isn't clear search for it still.  Stop for a moment, take pause and know it.  Without this clear picture a person can be lost and grow panicked, clouding your vision more and more.  Stop for a moment, catch your breath, realize what fuels that heart beating in your chest.  Hold it, treasure it, let it fuel you one step, then the next.

Peril lies in lack of clarity.

Life's moments offer a single choice, live pure to your heart and soul's vision and you'll want no more.

Lose sight of the clear picture and struggle, desperation, and emptiness shall find you, wrapping their arms around your neck, seeking to choke you with it's grasp.

Choose with care as with this breath your life's direction waits, thrive or suffocate.

Strength lies in clarity of purpose, clutch dearly to this life force.  Any other way to hold this and all could be lost.  When your vision is clear shackle it to yourself and never let go, this is your life's richness, this is all you need to know.

The cowards failed to recognize it and the weak died searching for more, lost in a blur was their life's meaning, they didn’t want to, but they had nowhere to go.

Let this simple choice be not lost upon you, choose with this breath all that is crucial and you shall triumph every crucible.

Pay any cost to ensure that your treasure is secure, suffer any toll to make sure your life's meaning is clear.

Sink or swim.